central russia is reeling from friday's spectacular meteor strike that left over a thousand people injured and caused widespread damage and distress. rival rallies in egypt anti-government protesters once again clashed with police while hard line islamists march in support of the president and shari'a law accusing the opposition of inciting violence. and by his fellow republican senators u.s. defense secretary nominee chuck hagel will be given another try but only after a week long test of his anti hawkish views our top stories. from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. with you on screen twenty four hours a day people in russia's urals are recovering from the shock of the meteor that

crashed to earth in the air on friday the space rock exploded in the sky creating a powerful shockwave and damaging hundreds of buildings including schools. twelve hundred people have been injured as a result of the devastating explosion many of them children what is your position of reports now from the affected region. thankfully the night passed quietly and without any incidents in chile i've instance there were fears that more meteors were going to hit the area nothing of the kind happened but the consequences of friday's meteor are still quite a handful of us not only about shattered glass lots of old buildings were damaged

as well like this factory there behind me where parts of the wall and roof just collapsed which is remarkable since we're around one hundred kilometers which is a sixty miles away from where the media or fell on friday the explosion was so powerful nasa says it was equal to around one thousand new cars dropped on hiroshima thankfully these explosions caused by the media were not accompanied by lethal radioactivity for more what happened here on friday here's this report it wasn't a bird a plane or superman but something much louder brighter faster and many times of war terrifying speed bright like you shiny across the sky you know blinding brighter than the sun and it was around nine am when the skies were suddenly lit up by media or flying over breaking into three parts it leaving a striking trail of smoke before vanishing just minutes later the city and the surrounding areas were literally rocked by

a series of massive explosion. and i immediately called one of my teammates who lives in my building and i you know i couldn't get through to him by phone in work so i was a little bit scared at that point so powerful it damaged buildings and shattered windows all across the city. but i was told that a plane crashed right into our building then we were told that a wall has been partially dislodged and metal structures inside were banned by the blast wave it was a very scary because the. media were able to be honestly phenomenon later flooding the web with footage as rumors. i don't know what it might have been a stricken airplane a satellite that fell out of orbit even the beginning of the end of the world and our t.v. documentary crew that was working in the area suddenly found themselves at the center of events that. we saw a huge tail in the sky like from an airplane and then there was

a bright fire and an explosion but the feeling was like there are three shattering we thought a military jets may have crashed or that it was some manmade disaster it was a relief to find out it was a natural phenomena except over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly from pieces of shattered glass not one of the girls ran out to take pictures yes. and she was thrown in by the wave that came after this the flash and then we. my ears got blocked and the whole room get down filled with dust just like like a fog it's estimated the media as we need to varied from ten to forty tons and its speed of around twenty miles per second it gave it a huge amount of energy and made it very difficult to detect you know that there are telescopes and networks operated by nasa in the u.s. and what's cosmos in russia and the european space agency others that are out there

trying to detect and track asteroids but honestly there's a lot of there's hundreds of thousands and their biggest focus is on the really large ones ones that are hundreds of meters in diameter or kilometers in diameter that could potentially you know do to us what happened to the dinosaurs thankfully no one was killed this time and luckily the meteor didn't hit any industrial facilities including several nuclear sites located in the region nor is maxwell cross from the school of earth and space exploration says this was an event of huge scientific interest. meteor isn't asteroids are common many of them come from the outer part of our solar system perturbations from the planet jupiter and other planets there's a huge. store of of comets asteroids out outside the orbits of jupiter and outside in fact the outer solar system some of them periodically get disturbed by the gravity of the inner planets and get sent inwards some of them are

big balls of ice and become comets others are big balls of rock and the impact on mars and the earth and the moon and. what's fascinating is actually you could if you can collect some of this material some of it is primordial if we actually detect it and we can we can get it right after it falls we can actually measure material that hasn't been processed since a solar system formed four and have billion years ago so for scientists it's a fascinating event and i'm happy that people weren't killed but if but if some of that material can be recovered it'll be incredibly interesting and important for scientists. at r.t. dot com we've got a special section on the exploding space rock on the havoc it wreaked but i want to check out the exact timeline of the incident as well as more images and firsthand accounts.

egypt is once again being shaken by burning buildings and stone throwing protesters with tear gas and water cannon unleashed in response as rallies against the president's ruling islamists have routinely turned into clashes with police the renewed unrest began on the second anniversary of the country's revolt and has been taking place weekly since then this time however there was a massive rival rally organized by hardline islamist thousands gathered courage to show their support for president morsi and islamic demonstrators lashed out at the opposition blaming them for violence that has taken at least seventy lives in recent weeks but despite this display of loyalty to the current leadership many experts believe it's days are numbered. in egypt in the last two years as in effect a coup by twelve percent it's the actual number of eligible voters who voted for the sharia constitution and that's the muslim brotherhood and the majority of the egyptians so they are dead set against any kind of shari'a constitution they want

to have their democracy they want to be able to breathe openly and worship god in their own way and not be told what to do now i think the interesting thing is what's happening in washington since the second obama term began i think what we're seeing is on the obama have it that this entire muslim brotherhood experiment of the arab spring has turned out to be a catastrophe and they're pivoting their energies towards china and downgrading their support of groups like morsi so i think what's playing out now is the. other who just finished in egypt i don't see any way that there's going to be a reconciliation and the people the people smell back the sense that they feel that and that's what's driving so even the brotherhood steps that are peacefully and respects the world majority or we're going to have a very bloody ugly egypt to libya now where unlike egypt rallies marking the two year anniversary since the anti kadafi uprising broke out have been largely

peaceful so far but fears of unrest and violence is still strong and there's a mixed mood in the country ahead of official celebrations in benghazi the birthplace of the revolt a bomb exploded outside a police station but local media reported the attack was purely criminal and like any political motive there is however a growing feeling of discontent over the power of militias the abundance of guns and a lack of government control political analysts talk to even have a new she explains what trends in post gadhafi libya are threatening the country's future. and what we have seen over the last two years in libya is that this integration of any form of central control paving the way for the fragmentation of the country into three states at the same time there is around lawlessness in the country there is an outgrowth of fundamentalism of the criminals that has over and somali as we have seen over the last couple of months and

a little bit more than two months and at the same time we have this but sort of. strife breaking out between the front militias and the country so yes a lot has changed but not for the better chuck hagel will be given another shot at becoming the u.s. defense secretary after the senate returns from recess in less than ten days a stalling vote by hagel as fellow republicans saw him fall just short of landing a new job earlier this week what he's going to church can has the details. those who blocked the vote on chuck hagel nomination this thursday know very well that he will eventually be confirmed as defense secretary there are enough votes in the senate to confirm him but the stalling of the vote together with the humiliating treatment that the senators gave chuck hagel two weeks ago at his confirmation hearing this whole process is seen as a message all by itself those lawmakers showed that they could crush anyone who

would allow themselves to dissent from washington's core foreign policy beliefs chuck hagel remarks at the confirmation hearing disappointed even his supporters during the hearing which to many seemed like an inclusive mr haygood had to backtrack on many of the statements he had made before including that war with iran should not be an option including his criticism of israel's actions and some other foreign policy views that he had expressed as a senator so throughout that the longer an exhausting hearing mr hague kept apologizing for much of the previous statements he had to take from previous positions he had taken and he bent backwards to show how quote unquote mainstream his views are in the senators kept accusing him of not being again quote unquote mainstream enough to get the job chuck hagel swore to defend basically all of washington's foreign policy orthodoxies his confirmation process has been humiliating in many ways than it demonstrated the state of u.s. foreign policy of policy basically intolerant of an ill turn to do vision alternative claude having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck

hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before it was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much of your talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the word war was mentioned one hundred twenty times the word iran one hundred eight times by comparison of ghana's than the war that the u.s. is fighting right now just twenty six mentions of course those are just words but they may very well show how eager many many in washington are to discuss new wars without even having finished the old ones. u.s. authorities are planning to phone away every tweet have a sent in a huge archive. they're doing a lot of other stuff that they should be doing like killing people across the world but you know there's only so much we can do and i think storing our tweets are kind of low on the priority but i'd still

a point that they should stop doing on the program people in new york kind of interest is a necessary safeguard or a sinister form of sleeping there's so much more for you right. with. science technology innovation all the news developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you. are welcome to the big picture.

more news today. again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations rule today. these continues here now on r.t. there's a new big game against big brother being played across germany where activists a tearing up to destroy as many surveillance cameras as possible the players claim their message is serious and that they're protecting their privacy threatening a major protest in berlin later in the day one of the explores whether their actions are valid or just another form of vandalism if you ever get the feeling

that someone is watching you whilst walking through the streets of the german capital there may be more to it than paranoia and the amount of sensitivity civilians on the rise it's not as bad yet as in other countries for example of the u.k. very millions of cameras are stalled but still the number is rising and that's worrying us. that increase has seen some berliners take quite drastic action and fight back against what they see as the invasion of their privacy the target for their fight the cameras themselves the phenomenon has even produced an online game cam over the rules are simple film yourself destroying c.c.t.v. cameras posted online and points are awarded for the amount of camera smashed as well as bonus points for creativity although many privacy campaign is are uneasy this more militant approach we're not a particular big fan of while and even if it's while it's against things that's

a form of protest we do not support of the ovi support the message. is contest will culminate in a protest ahead of the european police congress in berlin law enforcers fear the movement and its methods will only rise in popularity and public damage i don't think it's it's a group that is committing these crimes i think these are some people from the left wing political corner they want others to compete with them to destroy cameras and what about allegations that the rise in c.c.t.v. coverage was turning berlin into an all well in state no i don't think so i think we have a strict law that the only personal belongings or the personal. ground you own can be protected by a camera you're not allowed to point the camera at

a public street and so i don't think there's. big brother watching everybody here germany does have some very strict laws when it comes to personal image rights even global giants like google of how to censor the faces of anyone snapped on the street service the advancements of things like smartphones and the amount of pig. just take it and uploaded to the web every day it should to make it even more difficult for those who prefer to keep their anonymity the authorities deny that big brother is watching you in berlin however as the amount of c.c.t.v. in the city goes up it becomes increasingly difficult not to get caught on camera peter all over r.t. . over on our website at the moment an image of two palestinian children killed by israeli soldiers scoops the twenty twelve world press photo award it turns out the reason shocking images doing the rounds on social networks sparking mass outrage.

at r.t. dot com. a russian man raids a mental health center to rescues girlfriend claiming she was unfairly section that we request of his mother you find out who is in trouble now. that is another international news this hour in our world update police in pakistan certainly sixty three people have been killed and up to two hundred injured in a suicide blast in the southwest of the country a remote controlled bomb went off in a shiite area of the city of quarter with numerous women and children among the victims a spate of similar assaults against shiite communities have been carried out by hardline groups in recent months. clashes have broken out in turkey between police and kurdish protestors on the fourteenth anniversary of the rest of the leader of the kurdistan workers party known as the p k k demonstrations took place in several provinces across the country security forces use water cannon and tear gas to disperse crowds the p.k. k. is long fought for kurdish autonomy demanding greater political and cultural rights

. now st cameras and other kinds of surveillance across the u.s. give its citizens the feeling of having less and less privacy but it seems what you've done in the past also won't be forgotten as the library of congress is now creating a database of all tweets ever posted as took to the streets of new york to find out whether the government is once again showing too much interest in people's private lives. the library of congress announced that it's storing our tweet is this just another method of surveillance or is it a way of archiving the times this week let's talk about that did you know that our government is starting to store all of our tweets they're archiving them in the library of congress not surprised you're not surprised by that now why not they're

quite everything are you ok with that no absolutely not so do we do about it you know i don't know because they're doing a lot of other stuff that they should be doing like killing people across the world but you know there's only so much we can do i think so our tweets are kind of low on the priority but it's still important they should stop there and yeah it's just another way that they can surveil us right yeah that's what i think how would you feel about your government storing all those tweets that scares me the soul of that because i mean like you could tweak things i mean if i took it for about three years now and i kind of member watch it back then if they can find out just kind of see what it was that's quite scary have you ever tweeted something that you might not want stored for all time usually a tweet recipes and food related things so i'd love it if this story. i mean those are very surprised i mean i know they tried to facebook and they tried everything you do a lot i mean they have the rights and they stand long as the invention was five it is doing this for your protection do you believe that you trust them to use it not

as a way to surveil you or invade your privacy you know i believe they're mean what more can they do i mean if you put stuff i'll do that you don't want to be out there that you shouldn't do with where you should just keep your private stuff so you should put it on twitter and all over the place whether or not you think the government storing our tweets is an invasion of privacy and the bottom line is you better think twice before you tweet because you never know who might be listening. that's the way it is for the moment here on our table but with the news team with more about forty minutes from now in the meantime robert forster in his inimitable music style targeting u.s. gun policy that's coming up shortly in g.'s news.

united states is based on gods you know i care rest that you'll never have the fall still play. oh music welcome to the show today come on out to sing we've just got a studio upgrade like i'm on the system is devoted to the debate which is beautifully divided the united states has to work for a great big mass shootings for the receiver to just say new look stupid want someone to kill them and to stop the bloodshed of this want to prevent government coming is there an absence of the steam past we consult expert kids from opposing factions the military response see is a representative of the black panthers problem is you know white missing to be on judgment preach peace compassion in abundance the illegality we are to see some anonymous i agree but why ban guns what you learn to read you kidding to the second

amendment is a sacred law but under the gun bans are evil people are just sick suggested john trying to mask only happen when people don't have access to semiautomatic weapons and we were given this precious right to bear arms not for hunting bears but to protect just you don't farm from each of americans who are defending the land from the colonists no property from our own freaking government respects the winter when it comes to pay to try to take power they take the people look at hitler stalin killed come on march listen chavez george the third in fact is that a brit. in the seventy seventy six look up sometimes you can't tell him what comes try to tell god ok let's hear from general but it's the first time we've had you both in the studio together frankly i'm shocked by what this loss of valuable american lives is a tragedy eleven thousand gun murders that you can eat truly we need to stop this insanity what do you suggest to start the citizenry leave guns to the criminals smugglers and the military with mission is the key. we need

a war on drugs in the workplace like our war on drugs has done for my children and so far general please i understand your perspective on the second amendment to you but can you provide events like the oval with your son. when temperance shooting shooters same shooting told closer to god you've been taking your meds the feds will go away to warn you david koresh of the school shooting that incident in connecticut was a deliberate orchestrated staged spike set up with aims aim to take our weapons and make us the best of them better use them plus a couple times they can find. someplace in there waiting to take the united states and to get a creative dictatorship in this culture the only one standing in the way of a general if the slaves want guns let them be our supremacy doesn't depend on weaponry with skills meet your money your mates we control every aspect of your life why you logical examination if you think you can just stop your reading what you're waiting for already strip you of your liberty for the simple might seem to

be if you once are bold. globalists god. well i guess that sums it up and brings us to point to the end of our report on guns in the divided stakes of america certainly it's not our place to pass judgment but listen with a question and a last comment if your passion for the second amendment were missed by down the budget and then independent of the bonus media. the free internet presidency would

always be there but. if it's in to be significant it's the tipping it begins somewhat follows the first an expletive laced. with guns with the stay safe everyone. helicopters flying through the air day and night rounds of assault rifle ammo popping as the choppers buzz over the land now this unique form of hell of terror is no longer restricted to those in vietnam in the middle east now houston miami residents of the good old usa can get in on the fun houston residents in terror

called nine one one and scrambled for cover and even to schools put on lockdown as the military helicopters participated in a multi-agency training for ill in miami at night in the middle of downtown onlookers caught video on their telephones of blackhawk helicopters pumping loud blank on to the people below and maybe even as i speak a flexibly scheduled military drill could be happening in jesper county south carolina you know when i was a kid they tell us about how that year old soviet union would parade their tanks around how there were soldiers all over their oppressed country even in one thousand nine hundred four or will meet in a point to describe our military helicopters would eternally be overhead and a dystopian nightmare world now we're living the nightmare the united states is a huge country there's plenty of room on remote army bases to do your training also last time i checked afghanistan evil which is don't look like downtown miami just who are you training to kill anyways not caught.